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Could you use Aurora Limitless for this instead? https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-au...

I doubt even VC money can afford this service.

Serverless Aurora is incredibly expensive for most workloads. I have yet to find a use case for any SaaS product that is used >4 hours a day. Since all my products span at least 3 time zones there is at least 12 hours of activity a day.

What products

We found this out the hard way in a small startup. The per query and I/O expense was through the roof.

Did it work though? Did you achieve unlimited scaling? Because if so you should compare the price to the price of a team of great minds such as in this article, working for 2 years to get a solution.

I bet it still would be cheaper to pay people over Amazon, but I'm curious about the numbers

It worked fine, the problem was our workloads were minuscule and it still cost $3,000 a month to support 50ish users on a lightly used platform.

The same load in a non-Serverless instance was around $100/month.

"Limitless" refers to the bill, not just the scale.

At my company, we were given an early talk on Limitless. Never once did the reps mention that it ran on Serverless. Dear lord, that's going to be a hard no from me. Unless they've dramatically changed pricing for Limitless as opposed to normal Serverless, that'll be through the roof.

Haha alright I get the picture. Too expensive.

Yes, but that wasn't available when they did this migration

Hm, looks like it's only available as a preview too. I was wondering why I hadn't seen in mentioned before.

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